Limelight

By Boy Villasanta Filmmaker Jose Javier Reyes was appointed Monday, April 8, 2024 by the Office of the President as the new Chairman and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Film Development Council of the Philippines (FDCP). Reyes, better known as Joey Reyes in the film circle, replaced actor Tirso Cruz III whp resigned last month due to personal reasons,. …

By Boy Villasanta South Cotabato Province has made history once more not in the geo-political upheavals but in the socio-cultural breakthroughs as well. They are the mix of the indigenous and contemporary social traditions and heritage reserves. Just like some of its Koronadal residents who gathered together to showcase their musical as well as literary prowess in rap and traditional …

When she was a little girl, Joscephine Gomez contracted a rare eye disease—retinoblastoma which occurs among children aged from birth to six years old. From then on, Joscephine was an unusual person who wouldn’t be reduced to self-pity. “I would always fight for my right as an individual even if I was still a small girl,” she recalled. Gomez persevered …

As if a romantic engagement between two people wasn’t enough, the engaged couple still held a party to announce to the world the officialdom of the fiance’s marriage proposal to his beloved. That was exactly what happened when future bride Mara Lopez and groom  Chandler Booth decided and carried out an engagement party in the US recently. Mara and Chandler …

The mirthful show business is painfully mourning the deaths of its luminaries recently. The bleak news started with the sudden demise of award-winning actress Jaclyn Jose due to myocardial infarction or a heart attack. While Jaclyn, Mary Jane Santa Ana Guck in real life, was being paid homage by the whole entertainment industry, veteran and iconic theater, film and television …

I can safely say I was part of the late Jaclyn Jose’s journey into the art and business of Philippine cinema. Jaclyn’s first step in the long and winding road of show business was a given. Even if she was a half-sister of then popular actress Veronica Jones in the late 70s, she had to paddle her own canoe, start charting …

Even after Jaclyn Jose’s inurnment of her ashes, there are still rumors that the actress might have died of suicide and foul play apparently an indication of a SOCO yellow line surrounding her house in Quezon City where she was found lifeless in the morning of March 2, 2024. Even if Jaclyn’s daughter Andi Eigenmann had delivered in a press …

Love is lovelier the second time around. And getting married again to the same person is heaven. This is indeed true to couple Luis Manzano and Jessy Mendiola when they tied the knot for the second time recently at the scenic Coron, Palawan. Luis and Jessy married for the first time in a civil rite performed by Lipa City Mayor …

The reception of diversified audiences at the St. Paul University in Quezon City (SPUQC) for the retro showing of Star Cinema’s “”Anak,” a 2000 blockbuster film about the sacrifices of an OFW mother starred in by Vilma Santos, Claudine Barretto, Baron Geisler, Cherry Pie Picache, Amy Austria, Joel Torre, among others, written by now National Artist for Film and Broadcast …

The outpourings of sympathies and remembrances from kith and kin, colleagues, superiors etc. on the sudden demise award-winning actress Jaclyn Jose are heartwrenching and truly filial and congenial as if she was indeed a in their bloodline. Jaclyn, Mary Jane Guck in real life, died of still unknown cause yesterday. According to some sources, Jaclyn was found lifeless inside her …